You know the military units ( both sides) take over civilian buildings as barracks and HQ, right? If it was just a tourist hotel and pizza place, the Ukes wouldn’t set up its valuable scarce Patriot missiles to defend it.
When a Patriot site turns on its radar, a Russian missile grows its wings.
Or you can stay in your angry place and accept Kiev’s version that the Russians have so many Iskanders they are targeting families in pizza joints to win the hearts and minds of people in territory they annexed
” the Ukes wouldn’t set up its valuable scarce Patriot missiles to defend it.”
You were there?
By your logic, the fact that a Russian missile hits a building proves the 101st Airborne was there. That’s absurd. I know you don’t think that’s what you’re arguing, but that’s the necessary conclusion of what you ARE arguing. And the fact that you invent an absurd straw man doesn’t make your case any stronger.
How’s this?
Since pizza is more of an American thing than a Ukrainian thing, Russians thought there might be some Americans there? They don’t need to be a military unit to be Americans. They don’t need to be Americans to draw Russian fire. They don’t even need to have Patriots to draw Russian fire. They don’t necessarily even needed to have targeted the building to have hit the building. You know, the Russians HAVE hit a lot of residential buildings, as tends to happen in wars.